“In the grand tradition, both Chinese and Western painting have a close link with literature,”
Gao Xingjian
“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can”
Danny Kaye
“Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”
Oscar Wilde
“I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...”
Vincent van Gogh
“The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government”
Milton Friedman
“I would advise young artists . . . to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly . . . . If their painting doesn't improve by itself, it means that nothing can be done - and I wouldn't do anything!”
Claude Monet
“If a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you?”
David Gates
